Bonita Cohn

Bonita Cohn makes stoneware pottery for daily use, primarily using local clays and wood ash. Cohn fires her works in both her own gas kiln and large wood kilns in participation with ...
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    Bonita Cohn makes stoneware pottery for daily use, primarily using local clays and wood ash. Cohn fires her works in both her own gas kiln and large wood kilns in participation with other potters including Dick Hotchkiss, Nolan Babin, Hiroshi Ogawa and Richard Carter.

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    Apprenticeships & Residencies
    Primary Work Experience
    1977
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    Teacher, Ruby's Clay Studio, San Francisco, California

    1987
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    2008

    Studio Manager, San Francisco Jewish Community Center, San Francisco, California

    2007
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    Editor, ACGA (Association of Clay and Glass Artists of California) News

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    Public Collections

    American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California

    Goshoga Ceramics Museum, Aomori, Japan

    Yixing Ceramics Museum, Yixing, China

    Bibliography

    Kiefer, Howard and Deborah Lipman. "The Kiln That Consumed Elkton," Ceramics Monthly, December 1996.

    Tourtillott, Suzanne J. E. 500 Cups: Ceramic Explorations of Utility & Grace. New York: Lark Books, a division of Sterling Pub. Co, 2004.

    Tourtillott, Suzanne J. E. 500 Pitchers: Contemporary Expressions of a Classic Form. New York: Lark Books, 2006.

     

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    San Francisco, California

    Menlo Park, California

    Citation: Bonita Cohn, "The Marks Project."
    Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/bonita-cohn

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